ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Sweet Homes Chairman Zamurd Khan on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that child labour was at its peak in the country. He appeared before the three-member bench of the apex court…

ISLAMABAD: The office of ombudsperson on women harassment on Friday accused the reporter of a private news channel of attempting to attack Federal Ombudsperson for Protection against Harassment of Women at Workplace Kashmala Tariq and…

KARACHI: A middle-aged female passenger of a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight on Saturday physically assaulted a younger woman after yelling at her near the entrance of the plane. According to reports, the…

MARDAN: A close friend of Muhammad Nabi, a prime suspect in four-year-old Asma’s rape-murder case, terrorised the family of the minor by barging into Asma’s home and harassing the family, reported a local…

LONDON: British police are now investigating sexual assault allegations brought by nine women against US film mogul Harvey Weinstein, according to media reports Saturday. Scotland Yard confirmed that its “Operation Kaguyak” was…

HARYANA: Two students from Jammu and Kashmir were thrashed allegedly by nearly 15 people last evening in Haryana’s Mahendragarh. The police have arrested three of them and identified three more persons, said Mahendragarh’s Superintendent…

BERLIN: Turkey is determined to push on with its massive offensive against Kurdish forces in Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, as Turkish forces encountered heavy resistance on the third…

WASHINGTON: Democracy is under assault and in retreat around the globe, a crisis that has intensified as America’s democratic standards erode at an accelerating pace, according to Freedom in the World 2018, the…

ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad-based journalist, Taha Siddiqui, on Wednesday narrowly escaped being kidnapped by armed men, in an incident that came months after he complained of being harassed by security services. After the incident,…

WASHINGTON: A group of active and retired US troops gathered in freezing temperatures outside the Pentagon on Monday to bring attention to sexual assault and harassment in the military. The protest of about…